• Every piece of pre-finished hardwood arrives at installation ready to go, prepared to be laid down.
• Hardwood fashions a honey atmosphere throughout our homes and is also a practical choice.
• It is easy to preserve the quality and look of the flooring.
• Square, eased or beveled edges need to be decided upon.
• Beveled edges behave like channels for the flooring, directing soil and grime in to its crevasses so that the debris will not scrape the flooring and they also makes cleaning easier.

Variety and Color Choices:
Popular wood varieties are: red oak, white oak, maple, cherry, white ash, and hickory/pecan
Each of these varieties have their own sub categories with different color choices.
Choices in the different plank sizes – 2 ¼” strip, 3” or 5”.

Options in the level of gloss:
The options in this category are usually: high gloss, medium gloss or a matte or satin finish.
For busy rooms and your most lived-in areas, a lower gloss choice is best. The high gloss is more sophisticated and fancier, best saved for the ‘company rooms’, formal living rooms and dining rooms.

Soil and grime’s presence is minimized by the lower gloss options but these choices are not as brilliant.

Comparing Engineered and Solid Hardwood

Engineered - In order to provide dimensional stability the panels or boards are comprised of two or more layers or “piles”. This creates depth and dimensional stability.

Solid – solid pieces come in thicknesses of ¼”, ½” or ¾”.
One of the most beautiful aspects of hardwood flooring is the grain. Graining is decided by the motion with which the board was cut.
There are two different processes: The "Sliced Cut" which produced a standardized and more unvarying, sometimes linear graining pattern whereas “Rotary Cut” displays a bigger, less predictable and more prominent graining pattern.

Design Tips

Room Size – A petit room will feel and look larger with a lighter or more natural choice in finishes, while the darker choices will soak in the light and airiness and generate a more intimate atmosphere within a room.

Finish Colors

When choosing a finish there are two different directions you can go, either pick a finish color that harmonize with your cabinetry and furniture or a finish that is distinctly different from your cabinetry and furniture. Lighter and natural colors are inclined to come across more relaxed and unceremonious while darker woods seem to be more fancy and formal.

Board Width

Board width is an important detail in your room’s overall look. You can visually increase the feel of a particular room by choosing a slender width board, while wider boards seem to look more pleasing in a bigger room or area.
Some of the best interiors today don’t match perfectly but are rather a mixture of products that works together in interesting and unique blends or arrangements. So do not be shy about mixing different varieties of woods. Think about using different varieties or stains of hardwood floors in different room in the house. This can grant each individual room its own personality. Some choices that can give a room its own identity are:

• Use a contrasting stain of hardwood as a border around the perimeter.
• The hardwood floor can be laid on the diagonal to add significance to the flooring.
• Pop in a hardwood medallion to an entry way or a bathroom.
• Patterns can also be created such as a chevron pattern

 

Rural and timeless looks in oak or hickory.

The larger 5" plank size.

Exotic varieties such as cherry, chestnut and teak.